Trained at Stanford and Cambridge, Carolina Armenteros is an intellectual historian specializing in the history of social, political, and religious thought in Europe and the Atlantic world from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Her work focuses on the legacies of the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, in particular the founding of conservatism, as well as the intellectual history of monarchy and constitutionalism, Catholic social and political thought, developing social and political views of women, and the relationship between religion, society, and the emergence of the modern social sciences. Before coming to Hamilton, Armenteros taught and conducted research at the University of the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), the American University of Paris, the University of Cambridge, the University of Groningen, the Instituto de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Sociales and the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in Santo Domingo.
Armenteros is currently completing a fifteen-volume research and editorial project on the history of monarchy in Europe and the Atlantic world from 1500 to the present. She is particularly interested in the ways apparently traditional institutions reinvented themselves in response to revolution, nationalism, and the emergence of the modern state.
The French Idea of History: Joseph de Maistre and his Heirs, 1794–1854.
La idea francesa de la historia: Joseph de Maistre y sus herederos, 1794–1854.
L’idée française de l’histoire: Joseph de Maistre et sa postérité, 1794–1854.
Edited books
Inventing the Modern Papacy. Volume 1: The Birth of Political Ultramontanism (1789–1914)
Inventing the Modern Papacy. Volume 2: From Feudal Kingdom to Global Soft Power (1789–1914)
Monarchy and Liberalism in Spain: The Building of the Nation-State, 1780–1931.
Decolonialidad, emancipación y utopías en América Latina y el Caribe.
Joseph de Maistre and his European Readers: From Friedrich von Gentz to Isaiah Berlin.
Joseph de Maistre and the Legacy of Enlightenment.
The New enfant du siècle: Joseph de Maistre as a Writer.
Historicising the French Revolution.
Crown and Constitution: An Intellectual History of Modern European Monarchy, 1533–2023. Volume I: Reforming Monarchy: Sovereignty, Republicanism, and Constitutional Thought in Early Modern Europe, 1533–1861.
Crown and Constitution: An Intellectual History of Modern European Monarchy, 1533–2023. Volume II: Redefining Legitimacy: Liberal, Conservative, and Anarchist Perceptions of Monarchy in Nineteenth-Century Europe, 1804–1861.
Experiencing the Modern European Monarchy: Mobility in the Fin-de-Siècle Habsburg Empire.
